A worker at an industrial research facility spends their shift assembling and testing ionizing pentane detectors that use a beta-emitting radiation source that has an intensity of 8000 mSv per year measured at a distance of 10 cm. If the worker must not be exposed to more than 50 mSv of ionizing radiation per year, how far away from the beta-emitting source must they stay? O 0.8 cm O 400.0 cm O 126.5 cm O 160.0 cm O 38.5 cm
A worker at an industrial research facility spends their shift assembling and testing ionizing pentane detectors that use a beta-emitting radiation source that has an intensity of 8000 mSv per year measured at a distance of 10 cm. If the worker must not be exposed to more than 50 mSv of ionizing radiation per year, how far away from the beta-emitting source must they stay? O 0.8 cm O 400.0 cm O 126.5 cm O 160.0 cm O 38.5 cm
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![A worker at an industrial research facility spends their shift assembling and testing ionizing pentane
detectors that use a beta-emitting radiation source that has an intensity of 8000 mSv per year
measured at a distance of 10 cm. If the worker must not be exposed to more than 50 mSv of ionizing
radiation per year, how far away from the beta-emitting source must they stay?
0.8 cm
O 400.0 cm
O 126.5 cm
O 160.0 cm
O 38.5 cm](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F5f094bfc-f0c7-4b26-b50a-f14a6dea5887%2Ff32d255c-2e63-4980-a73c-765656f5f8f8%2F55ox32_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:A worker at an industrial research facility spends their shift assembling and testing ionizing pentane
detectors that use a beta-emitting radiation source that has an intensity of 8000 mSv per year
measured at a distance of 10 cm. If the worker must not be exposed to more than 50 mSv of ionizing
radiation per year, how far away from the beta-emitting source must they stay?
0.8 cm
O 400.0 cm
O 126.5 cm
O 160.0 cm
O 38.5 cm
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